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May 24, 2021Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation, spoke to the microphones of the program "Italy has awakened", hosted by the director Gianluca Fabi, Matteo Torrioli and Daniel Moretti on Radio Cusano Campus.



On the Covid situation.

"I am also surprised, especially at the accelerated drop in the number of hospitalized patients with symptoms and in intensive care. This is the effect of vaccines, of the fact that we have protected all the elderly. The reasoned risk strategy is working, because the reopenings are gradual and the vaccination campaign is progressively accelerating, with good adherence of the population to prevention measures ".



On vaccines. "We have almost run out of vaccine stocks. With deliveries we are around 2.9 million doses per week, so the famous vaccine invasion is not there at the moment."



"This system will go in parallel with the existing one until mid-June. The only major criticality I see in the new system is that it is based on the number of cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, it would be more correct to associate it with a minimum number of swabs, because if one makes fewer swabs identifies fewer cases. We have to decide whether to resume tracking or continue with a mitigation strategy and look above all at the number of hospitalizations ". 



"The future issue regarding the vaccination campaign" could be represented by those who refuse the vaccine, says Nino Cartabellotta.



"There is still a percentage of elderly people who are not vaccinated - he explains -. We need to think of supplementary solutions, not only with voluntary membership, but also with active calls, so we will know even if those who do not get vaccinated fail. or does not want to. The obligation to vaccinate I do not know if it is in line with the Constitution, and it is still difficult to link it to a specific objective. At the time of the Lorenzin decree - he remembers - the obligation was linked to school attendance. more advantage to the vaccinated. The strategies may be different, but we need to think about it now ".



"The green pass - adds Cartabellotta - is an inevitable solution to a series of critical issues. We await further details".